Signs Of the Times

Thousands marched through Mexico City on May 8 calling for new public policies in the drug war and the end of violence.

“John Paul II is blessed because of his faith—a strong, generous and apostolic faith,” Pope Benedict said on May 1.

“As Christians, we believe that there can no celebrating…no joy, in relation to the death of Osama bin Laden.”

The idea of the ordinariate is that people and priests can enter into communion with the Holy See together and stay together.

Spring storms of historic intensity ravaged communities broadly throughout the South creating destruction in “unheard of proportions.”

Five years after he indicated he would be open to ordaining women, Bishop William M. Morris was removed from office.

The homicide rate among youth in Latin America is double or triple the rate in all other parts of the world except Africa.

In an invitation to pray with U.S. deportees, Kenneth J. Gavin, S.J., assistant international director of Jesuit Refugee Service, said, “The most forgotten and vulnerable people in our country are largely housed in detention centers run by the federal government.” • The U.S. bishops

Official extortion and abuse are “one of the causes of the weariness and discouragement of our population,” says Congo bishop.

Mexico confronted the horror of another mass slaying in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.